DISPOSABLE LIFE. A NECROPOLITICAL VIEW OF THE CURRENT MIGRATION CONTAINMENT

Abstract

The current migration policies are carrying on practices of border enforcement for ceasing the migration flows. The migration policies of containment produce not only an increase in mortality rates but also an increment of forced inmigrant vulnerability and insecurity. For the neoliberal global system and its utterly commercial criteria, life matters just if it contributes to economic growth. Thus, immigrants and refugees constitute “disposable lives”. Rethinking the current migratory phenomenon along with the category of necropolitics leads us to develop a critical view of the migratory policies so as to vindicate, from an ethical perspective, human rights and human life.